some other part of it and realized. i'm trying hard bargain with the big picture. is a misnomer look set to take hold in egypt following the final round of voting on a new constitution opponents accused him whistlin brotherhood of rigging the ballots to cement its. promise school killings in connecticut sparks debate over whether america's the love of guns has gone too far with many demanding stricter controls on those who can bear arms. bahrain sees more police brutality and arrests for speaking out as the opposition describes the situation in the gulf and as its worst political crisis. and tit for tat lawmakers

in moscow give the go ahead and u.s. adoptions of russian children response to washington slapping sanctions on russian officials. you're watching news review with me kerry johnston welcome to the program. the results from the final round of voting in egypt's troubled referendum suggest a new constitution is likely to pass it follows that nearly a month of protests with the latest violent outbreak taking place in the country's second largest city and xander well journalist well true has more now from the capital. the preliminary results are in for egypt's contentious constitutional referendum egypt appears to have voted for the constitution sixty four percent say yes thirty six percent have said no this comes after mass to send in the streets

across the country with a past three weeks against this constitution opposition forces say force the presidential dictatorship and was drafted by an islamist dominated assembly of the twenty seven governors that went to vote in the last week only three voted against the constitution. this in the last round is largely due to the fact that in the last seventeen governments they went to vote a large amount of them are rural governorates who with large muslim brotherhood supports places their opposition forces for their part say that the reason it is a yes is because of electoral violations they say they've seen a number of instances of power possible vote rigging including missing judges and so on supervised polling stations missing ballot papers stuffed ballot boxes and also campaigning by the muslim brotherhood groups also. conservative salafist groups in the polling stations telling people to vote yes the biggest news of the

day however is the resignation of the vice president mohamed micky this is largely seen to be perhaps because in the draft constitution as it currently stands there is no post for the vice president this comes in the background of deepening violence across the country on friday we saw clashes between rival protest groups limits rallies in egypt second city xandra in support of the constitution there was rock throwing and also burning of cars the police had to intervene with tear gas that comes just one week after similar clashes and xandra and of course three weeks after very bloody scenes here in the capital cairo we saw ten people die when rival . racist groups. outside the presidential punished with a deepening political crisis and neither side tracking down now the constitution is likely to be put in place we can only expect dissent from the street and possible

violence across the country while eskandar journalist turned opponents with a new constitution explains why he thinks the documents is flawed i did vote myself and i voted no for the constitution and i think the vote this vote is not about the constitution but about the legitimacy of the muslim brotherhood and the direction they're taking the country the constitution itself is a very flawed it takes away more freedoms it gives police powers to detain people for for more than twelve hours or twelve hours and cement the military role in egypt something unprecedented in all of egypt's constitutions the numbers so far in the past results have indicated that this constitutional power the amount of voting illegal irregularities confirm that and the regime is determined as well to to let the. living alone on the revolutions israel scrambles to secure its

future as a master of rising leaves the jewish state surrounded by yes then friendly neighbors as coming up. also good men dangerous after six months holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london. to release of millions of confidential documents leaving the government in the world unaffected. i mean silence and the last victim laid to rest it's one week since twenty children and six staff at a connecticut primary school were killed or the worst mass shootings in modern american history the tragedy has sponsored fierce debate on gun control laws with many saying it's too easy for the public to access military grade weapons artie's garniture can find out if america is now ready to change its treasured second amendment. a week after the tragedy at the elementary school in newtown president obama made the same pledge when he became president four years ago to try and get

assault weapons off the streets of the u. what's it's a pledge he has failed to go live on this is not the first issue the first incident already going after four years. but the administration indicates this time it's different this time they're serious commitment and compromise. and most of all it will take coach shooting this boy it's a school and it's an important part of our hearing the debate taking place at the moment suggests a national consensus on the issue is far down the line and the dialogue between those who support and those who oppose such a ban comes down to this with guns comes safety if the guns are in the hands of the good guys if you not believe the stupid man on the powerful special interest group in washington the national rifle association has successfully fought any form of gun control legislation for years and the solution they offer to the epidemic of gun violence that has plagued the us is more guns. the only

thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun constitutional lawyer roger pilon thinks along the same lines and suggests arming teachers to prevent massacre was like the one in newtown connecticut you're always going to have people who are going to be doing these kinds of evil deeds what you need to do is protect yourself against the weapons in schools and you go to a movie theater you have to carry a gun because there will be there maybe someone with a semiautomatic you know wiping out the entire theater. as we have seen is that what you're suggesting. where do you put it provocatively like that what i'm suggesting people movie theater yes because the police cannot be everywhere there are almost three hundred million privately owned firearms in the u.s.

around ten thousand americans die in gun violence every year the gun murder rate in the u.s. is almost twenty times higher than in the next twenty two richest and most populous nations combined. we have three hundred million guns in america but also the population of three hundred million people so it's one gun per person and it's more guns are actually the solution to deterring shootings of any trial and it would have this problem in the first place the gun adam lanza used to kill twenty young children and six adults at the sandy hook elementary school was an a r fifteen semiautomatic rifle it's a military style rifle that can shoot hundreds of rounds at a rapid speed in belongs to adams mother who he also murdered nancy lanza a teacher at the same elementary school owned six guns numerous types of assault weapons are readily available for purchase in the u.s. at gun stores at gun shows and online after the newtown tragedy many americans are

calling for change again. make it end here like make it worth something we could meet some good you can't you could create change previous meaningful attempts to change hit a wall and that wall is the second amendment of the constitution the right of the people to bear arms skeptics say the most the administration can do is require background checks at gun shows but again adam lanza's mother a teacher at an elementary school would have probably passed any of those checks and her military style rifle would have ended up in the hands of her son anyway that constitutional lawyer i spoke to seemed very certain that nothing major is going to change when it comes to gun laws in america does that mean more massacres like the tragedy newtown in washington i'm going to check on. the wiki leaks whistle blowing web site is it ready to release a vos trove of new game changing information concerning every government in the world that was one of the points during the summer hundred agents he addressed

a crowd of journalists and supporters from ecuador and embassy in london this week six months since seeking asylum he says he intends to stay there until the threat to his knife most of us is gone we could expose person kristinn hrafnsson says the website's who's ready for a full on information war again. well we know about the ongoing. investigation of the secret grand jury and i was hungry and there is. an ongoing attempt to find an angle to bring charges against julian and possibly all those working for with police as a very serious matter of course very shameful for you obama administration not to stop that for the man who was right even taken four years ago to increase transparency and what we have seen is totally opposite. hunt against whistleblowers. that has no first place in history it will continue to work as we

have done just by difficult situation that you has been in the ecuadorian embassy you know for six months but probably it was your house arrest that hasn't stopped us we have continued to work. the economic blockade has not stopped us either even though we're getting into a dire situation financially but that's our battle that we have decided. all out war and i'm sure we'll have a victory there as well in the new year. christmas literally on the streets we report on new york's hidden home as america splashes out billions on christmas decorations and it's off to right. looking at some dogs you simply do not believe they can speak and goodness how they can wrong oh oh it's an international sled dog race with those

driving the dogs. coming from as far away as australia canada and the u.s. they come to russia and everybody is so very friendly they welcomed me with open arms and the scenery is so beautiful it's very much like alaska and so i felt at home the first lead dog was brought here from was straightly and now must have come to this remote russian village to take part in the race it's not surprising they love it this. ira mazie. but even more amazing is the story of how racing first started here at all it wasn't the tough mushers of sled dog racing who set the trail ablaze but a nun and for all friends who brought their deer to life five years ago mother porus care a bill to dog kennel in the village kids from the local all when it came around to take care of the dogs and one day they stayed there life might seem extreme to some

the boys wake up at six to feed the dogs before school in the evening they spend up to three hours training their four legged friends but mother per square also encourages her kids to become dab hands on the computer and internet the boys regularly updated their website and they're in touch with their business mother twenty four seven on the phone. but children are the most important thing in my only. rule any more and regardless of whether parsky has huskies win the race or not she hopes the competition will take place in the village next year. but called these dogs and the children it really is not the winning but truly just the taking part that counts.

bahrain has seen massive anti-government protests this week with the opposition saying the country is suffering the worst political crisis in its modern history they accuse the monarchy of gagging the voice of the people one of the leading activists arrested and charged for tweeting about monday's rally the man reported about to police using tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse demonstrators on a key has repeatedly been criticised by human rights groups for its crackdown on the opposition movement eighty people have been killed thousands arrested some reportedly tortured during almost two years of unrest hussein. can support democracy and human rights and frank says there is only the illusion of pressure on the kingdom. recently they came under tremendous pressure from the united states to open up their political systems to start a serious dialogue to reform the political situation however you know. take in for

example we still see attack on peaceful protests we still see political prisoners not to release torture still taking place human rights violations are taking place on daily basis there is a clear double double standard when it comes to u.s. foreign policy in the region especially rain and syria where the rise violations are committed and behind on daily basis however we hear no condemn nation from the united states while israel's aggressive settlement policy has left it isolated on the world stage the arab spring has left it short of friends in the middle east surrounded by less than welcoming is mr thought is some israelis remember fondly when despots who rule the region artie's poor asli reports. there's a storm brewing in the middle east and it's leaving a chill in the hearts of most israelis say what you might about the arab spring it poses an obvious problem for television zaman and so we've seen just

a few weeks ago. plenty of missiles falling on israel form a radical. i dream and we see. already the beginning of maybe a christian war in the golan heights we see plenty of the angels in the mediterranean sea israel's backyard has become a lot more dangerous in the last two years weapons from libya are leaking across borders and landing in the hands of unknown militant groups the trouble ahead is symbolized by the muslim brotherhood sweep to power in egypt from this rally in june an ominous promise by the movement to make sure we sell him and not kind of the capital at a minimum what we'll see is the free flow of weapons money and supplies from egypt into the gaza strip we will see egyptian volunteers going into gaza strip to fight that's the minimum moving up from there the possibility of egypt israel war is by

no means impossible but it was democracy that brought the muslim brotherhood to power and i deal both israel and the west came to espouse but both are now waking up to the reality that things might in fact have been better under the previous dictatorships at least for them we had the difficult it was to had the contact you know with the leadership secondly president mubarak was committed to the peace process the situation today is that we are confronting a new president who belongs to a certain institution a certain movement which do not believe in the right of israel for existence. israeli leaders know all too well that whatever friendships however useful they have with arab leaders it doesn't alter the basic rate posed by an arab awakening that in most countries is empowering militant islamic groups we will expect that these governments when when they will will but pressure not only on the friends of

we feel also this. the new changes in the democracies that is emerging in the arab world will have a tremendous challenges and. in order to maintain. law and order to establish a real democracy the need need some time but elevate fears that in the time it takes for that democracy to really take root and for the arab public perhaps one day to accept a jewish state relations with its arab neighbors will get far worse before they get better the challenge now for israeli leadership is twofold to avoid inflaming arab public opinion while protecting israel and also to counter the growing disparity many israelis feel of a growing isolation in an increasingly volatile neighborhood policy r.t. tel aviv. or is one step closer to imposing

a total. children by u.s. citizens with no house apartment giving the green light to the nation and the ban is part of why don't legislate targeting those who abuse the rights of russians abroad moscow is responding to washington's travel and financial restrictions on russian officials suspect of involvement in the death of magnitsky he died in custody during a massive tax fraud investigation three years ago the president of however says the u.s. has x. the moral standing to accuse others of human rights violations. attributed to our u.s. partners and their lawmakers say they are concerned about human rights in our prisons and that's fine of course but there are plenty of issues they have themselves abu ghraib and guantanamo where for years people have been detained without charge it's inconceivable that prisoners walk around in chains like in the middle ages they've legalized torture inside their own country if something like that happened here it

would cause an international outcry but it all remains quiet in the us we've heard plenty of promises to close guantanamo but it's still there it's still operating maybe there is still torture going on there secret cia prisons has anyone been brought to account and they're pointing at our problems well thank you we're aware of that making this the ground for passing anti russian laws it's something absurd and we have a no way provoked such action where statements came as part of putin's end of a marathon with the media we will bring you more highlights next hour. the spirit of christmas isn't just a good feeling it's a multi-billion dollar industry now it's insole decorations all make for a pretty sight but sometimes the those who are less fortunate. reports now from new york. a match in

a country with no homeless people i know it's not the most festive or jolly like question to ask during the holiday season but see here in the u.s. nearly six hundred and thirty four thousand people went homeless last year and as it turns out just a sliver of the money american spent on blinking lights tinsel bright stars and shiny presents could actually and the nation's homelessness epidemic. is she. is the way. there is going to were it is a waste there decoration you created me. imagine how much santa could do for a lawyer with low income housing with that kind of money that's what people need housing is all for show us and a lot a lot of very desperate people on the streets in new york texas wherever i mean it's it really is a sad situation and i think we can all do better you know maybe sometimes people go

a little overboard you know we want to we all be in the christmas spirit but i guess there's other things that you could be doing with. dollars spent just on flights and all and all that because people want to get into the spirit right and they want to forget about all the ugliness in the world and that's not right they need to remember the homelessness well we came here for this and we're all wrapped up in it but when you point that out it's a shame you know top white house officials say that the government would need an annual budget of twenty billion dollars to effectively eliminate homelessness by twenty twenty of top of the obama administration however even though that money sounds like a lot we should put it into perspective according to the national retail federation americans spent more than six billion dollars on christmas decorations last year and holiday sales reached a reported four hundred and seventy billion dollars so in this season of giving as americans are spending in the cloud of holiday spirit they could essentially be

curing a huge social problem that continues to plague the nation reporting from new york marina for not r.t. . now the mayan calendar has run out but we're still here some of us though it may have light to what it's just a few minutes o.t. takes a look at those who turned a collapse into profit stay with us. in japan the average. ten to meters ten centimeters shorter because of that some employers refused to hire me one of them even told me directly that i was too short to deal with the clients computers already spent three months in this hospital and plans to stay for another four to add the coveted seven santa majors to his stature

invented by the famed soviet orthopedic is good for you is there of in the nineteen fifties these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them up or therefore stimulating tissue regeneration it was out of was able to receive arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life be sent to for life the sentence their lives to go when professing designed his first frame bicycle parts sixty years later he says invention is increasingly being used to help people who are eager to fracture their legs to become a few centimeters taller than the ultimate goal is still the same fixing somebody is live. and figure it's only about a third of patients admitted to the result of center now days seeking series three focus medical reasons most of them are men and most are not what you would call vertically challenged professor novick of who operated on many of them says it

usually comes down to a man's pride. the first patient to turn to us with a leg length i mean a quest to meet his fifteen centimeters tall to want to surgery because panos tool than him we like to say that we need to break their legs in order to fix their head maybe nothing wrong with them from an orthopedic point of view but there is something psychological that prevents them from living their lives fully being happy and we fix it like lengthening surgeries are banned in many countries and even the out they're pretty expensive in russia the entire course costs eleven thousand dollars about one tenth of the similar package in the united states. financial considerations were one of the reasons that brought peace washington state native to western siberia his main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared in the auditors in america average height is one seventy five i was one sixty seven or one sixty eight and so one eight centimeters would have brought me

right to average users wanted to be average for women height isn't so important you know i think girl can be short and it's not a big deal like your guy is like expected to be taller just before the operation most this matter russian girl who found he's a regional hide quite in dealing yet he still want to have had the surgery adding seven more centimeters to the self-confidence she took to tell me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. so now or so they call you so what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations. it's a job but it's also a religious vocation that's pushing her to constantly find new ways of developing her business. today she visited this could even the denver area.

it's a more than three kilometer deep maze this spot is for sale and robin is thinking about buying it for the construction of more underground shelters if somebody was to light a fire someone in here what about the ventilation with the smoke or something like that you probably would want to get yourself back in a small room with a fire or anything like that but when something like this we are close to an entrance there's a lot of here we're going to probably be all right ok. you think it's a good survivor it's like i do a cave like this we get easily howls a thousand or so people and me so it would be a great project a great resource to have. for robin it's the perfect place but her family seems a little less enthusiastic would you like to live in a cave like this if it was like mandatory hundred. choice. but according to robin the girls will surely not have the choice because according

to her the end of the world science is already well and truly visible starting with the crumbling of christian values in our modern societies if you go one bookstore or one movie store friend's sense how many of those books and how many of those movies do you think that jesus christ himself what's. and that'll tell you how many things are going to get burned those things need to be cleansed out of the world for him to be a part of it again so he's going to come back there's going to be a cleansing process the millennium for so that tells you how bad the world could possibly be. living quarters for a large family in a bunker being sold up to two million euros. to meet the demand real estate. all over the united states. just a few months ago larry hall was building skyscrapers but today in middle the.